<p>I’ve posted about both my cognitive troubles and academic under-preparation before, but they might be deleted, old threads.</p>
<p>My parents aren’t that bad really. They do have a practical mindset and I can’t really blame them. I’m leaning heavily towards law school (I said grad school just as a generalization), and I have read that actual GPA carries far more weight than where it’s earned. And interesteddad, that percentage says more about the type of student at Swat than about the quality of grad school that they are admitted into.</p>
<p>The sleep disorder is real - they kept telling me “change your lifestyle” instead of getting the test. </p>
<p>The psychological disorder is suspected - for now.</p>
<p>The “earthshaking tragedy” is that they are trying to teach me financial independence, and would rather have me bagging groceries 20 hours a week instead of me doing work that I find interesting (at a real estate office) 10 hours a week and reading “useless, encyclopedic information” with the other 10 hours. School ending is going to change the equation soon.</p>
<p>They would rather me learn something “marketable”, like programming. I’m reading Theodore Kaczyinski’s Manifesto and “The effect of mode of breathing on craniofacial growth revisited” instead.</p>
<p>But I cannot argue with their professional assertions so much - my dad’s big in academia and my mom knows the workings of her industry. It would be a shame if I didn’t get into the right law school because my GPA didn’t correspond with my LSAT.</p>